Paradise

That's how I would describe the past week or two. Complete paradise. Being unemployed, leisurely wasting the hours away with my hobbies and my love. What could be better?

However, as with all highs, this paradise comes with a cost. The cost being that it is a result of external elements in the physical world. It is subject to change, as all things are. Money could run out, we could be evicted, even arrested, and at the very worst, one of us could die. Such is life. What goes up, must come down.

It is important to enjoy the good times as they are given to us. It is easy to get lost in the fear of "what if this ends?" which hinders any enjoyment of the circumstances provided to us. To truly enjoy, we must be without fear. It is not a question of "what if this ends" anyway, the real question is, when will this end, for it will, as all things do. For the most part this is completely out of anyone's hands and is not worth concerning ourselves about.

What is important is to pay attention to how things are now, at this time. Not in the future, not in the past, but right here in front of us. This applies to all circumstances. The past is but a story and the future just a dream, what is here, now, is real.

The ego is ignorant, and it is easy to let it make us miserable with it's desires. The ego's desires can never be completely satisfied, it will always want more and it will always want to possess and secure what it has, often at great cost.

When I begin to forget this, I like to find a quiet place to sit where I can be alone and think, I am well fed, I am warm, I am alive and breathing, this is as good as it gets.